Too much technology?

Now I've been in Quito for a week, starting the work at the Yanapuma Foundation. Currently, Yanapuma is focusing their work on two indigenous communities - the Bua in the rainforest to the west and La Chimba in the mountains to the northeast. I'm still getting familiar with the needs and opportunities in both places, and plan to be working in sustainable agriculture but not sure yet about exactly what I'll be doing and in which place.

The last two days have been testing my patience. Mostly because yesterday the hard disk in the laptop I bought just 2 weeks ago wouldn't boot. It seems now that it may have become infected with a boot sector virus, but also the recovery disk I had created a couple of weeks ago just after I bought the computer didn't recover. Finally found a technician today who recovered the few data files I hadn't backed up and I think can restore the OS tomorrow. Didn't have these problems when I didn't carry a computer. Another drawback is that outside of the city, it's easy to find internet cafes but hard to find WiFi locations.

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cjones on January 15, 2008 from Quito, Ecuador

from the travel blog: so-journ

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